Fraud NAIC – Anti-Fraud (EX6) Subcommittee Fraudsters The fact that we charge people fees that we have disclosed and that fees reduce the value of your policy, and if your policy keeps reducing in value, it will lapse, is not a fraud. That’s common sense. That’s how life insurance works.  (p171)  —  Closing Argument by…

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Reliance Justified Reliance Reasonable Reliance Reliance Insurance Company 1999 – LC – Zarrella v. Minnesota Mutual Life Ins., 96-2782 – Opinion – 26p (p10) – More importantly, however, plaintiff could not have prevailed on the misrepresentation claims because the statement did not induce plaintiff to act on them in the manner that Minnesota Mutual intended. The statements were part…

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Duty Duty to Disclose Duty to Read Duty to Speak Fiduciary Duty Memorandum of Law in Support of American General Life Insurance Company’s Motion for Summary Judgement See Watkins v. HRRW, LLC, 2006 WL 3327659, at *8 (“Tennessee courts, however, have rejected breach of fiduciary duty claims against insurance agents in various factual circumstances.”); see…

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Lawsuits – WishList Any Agent Depositions Blumenthal v New York Life Walker v LSW Any Expert Witness Depositions / Report Fay v Aetna – Hager, Claire 2016 – LR – Recent Trends in the Use of Surveys in Advertising Law Disputes; an Update on the Case Law, by Kenneth Plevan – 45p <WishList – survey>  –  A…

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Sealed Court Documents 2019 1216 – Letter – Reporters Committee for thed Freedom of the Press (rcfp.org) to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States Re: Proposal for Supreme Court rule addressing sealed court records – 66p  American International Group, Inc. 2008 Securities Litigation – Depositions – Sealed “substantial government…

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Attorney General NAAG – National Association of Attorneys General  On the surface is the handbook operator. He makes a profit from the persons who place bets with him because he has an edge on every bet. He pays track odds but usually not in excess of 20 to 1. The odds at the track are…

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Law – Books Hornbooks American Casebook West Academic 1960, 1971 – Basic Text on Insurance Law, Robert Keeton ‎ Carolina Academic Press Principles of Insurance Law, Fifth Edition – Stempel, Knutsen, Swisher 5th – 2020  Hornbooks Insurance Law (Hornbooks)- Robert Keeton & Alan Widiss 1988 LexisNexis Insurance Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition 3rd Edition…

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NYSBA – New York State Bar Association nysba.org/ LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY CONTRACTS WITHIN AND WITHOUT TAX QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLANS AND LIFE INSURANCE TRUSTS – MetLife Premier Client Group – 120p

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Charity Owned Life Insurance 2003 1202 – Letter – Anonymous Writer Criticizes Charity-Owned Life Insurance Anonymous to  Susan Brown Associate Tax Legislative Counsel, Office of Tax Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury pgdc.com/pgdc/story/anonymous-writer-criticizes-charity-owned-life-insurance 2010 – GOV (DOTT-Department of the Treasury) – Report to Congress on Charity-Owned Life Insurance – 39p 2010 – LC – OSU,…

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Law Reviews – Daniel Schwarcz scholarship.law.umn.edu/// Daniel-Schwarcz 2022 – LR – The Value and Reality of Transparent Consumer Insurance Contracts, by Kyle D. Logue, Daniel Schwarcz, and Brenda J. Cude – 27p 2017 – LR – Coverage Information in Insurance Law, by Daniel Schwarcz – 72p  …  insurance law and regulation can, in a variety…

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